Arnis Balčus
Photography, Visual Artist
1978 –
Who is Arnis Balčus?
Arnis Balčus is a Latvian photography and video artist. Born in Riga, Latvia, Balcus lived and worked in his home town before moving to London, United Kingdom, in 2004. He took an MA course on photography at University of Westminster from 2004 to 2005. He is exhibiting his work since 1994, but emerged internationally in 2003 with the photographic series Myself, Friends, Lovers and Others. Using snapshot aesthetic the series were showing the everyday life of contemporary Latvian youth. The series had numerous solo shows, for instance, at Giedre Bartelt gallery, Berlin, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, State Museum of Art, Riga and Matthew Bown Gallery, London.
In the project Episodes the artist was staging various cinematic scenes on the subjects of sex and violence, referencing films by Russ Meyer, Michael Powell and John Waters. Episodes were released as a video and a series of three books - Vol. I, Vol. II and Behind the Scenes, as well as exhibited as photographs and video in galleries and video festivals in London, Riga, Prague and other places.
In May 2009 Arnis Balcus showed his new series Amnesia at Riga Art Space.
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- Born
- Apr 2, 1978
Riga - Nationality
- Latvia
- Profession
- Education
- University of Westminster
- Lived in
- Riga
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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